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Important discoveries have frequently been made through the studies of matter under high pressure. The conditions of the pressure environment are important for the interpretation of the experimental results. Due to various restrictions…
In situ studies under severe plastic deformation at high pressures, employing rotational/shear diamond anvil cells (RDAC), have recently gained much interest in the high-pressure community owing to their potential applications in material…
We present a first experiment combining high pression and coherent X-ray diffraction. By using a dedicated diamond anvil cell, we show that the degree of coherence of the X-ray beam is preserved when the X-ray beam passes through the…
Optically detected magnetic resonance of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond offers novel routes to both DC and AC magnetometry in diamond anvil cells under high pressures ($>3$ GPa). However, a serious challenge to realizing experiments…
A novel diamond anvil cell suitable for electrical transport measurements under high pressure has been developed. A boron-doped metallic diamond film was deposited as an electrode onto a nano-polycrystalline diamond anvil using a microwave…
Double stage diamond anvil cells (DAC) of two designs have been assembled and tested. We used a standard symmetric DAC as a primary stage and CVD microanvils machined by a focused ion beam - as a second. We evaluated pressure, stress, and…
The uniaxial compression design of the diamond anvil high pressure cell (DAC) necessitates the use of a soft pressure-transmitting medium (PTM) to minimize non-hydrostatic effects at significantly high pressures, and many such media are…
High pressure experiments in diamond anvil cells as well as in geophysics show that at certain discrete values of pressure abrupt changes of the mass density and changes of the material structure occur. The aim of this paper is to discuss…
We describe an experimental platform that generates infrared images of micrometer-sized samples in the high pressure region of a diamond anvil cell. Using a 2.3 micron laser as a source of radiation, the system will be particularly useful…
Transport and heat capacity measurements under pressure must reconcile the limited available space and complicated geometry of a high-pressure cell with the need for multiple electrical connections. One solution for diamond anvil cells is…
We report an innovative high pressure method combining the diamond anvil cell device with the technique of picosecond ultrasonics. Such an approach allows to accurately measure sound velocity and attenuation of solids and liquids under…
Pressure is a unique tool to tune the interplay between structural, electronic and magnetic interactions. It leads to remarkable properties of materials such as recent temperature records in superconductivity. Advanced magnetic measurements…
Manganese, in the a-Mn structure, has been studied using synchrotron powder x-ray diffraction in a diamond anvil cell up to 220 GPa at room temperature combined with density functional calculations (DFT). The experiment reveals an extended…
Pressure serves as a fundamental tuning parameter capable of drastically modifying all properties of matter. The advent of diamond anvil cells (DACs) has enabled a compact and tabletop platform for generating extreme pressure conditions in…
Temperature and pressure are essential parameters in the synthesis, evaluation, and application of functional materials. This study proposes the addition of a heating function to a high-pressure diamond anvil cell (DAC) with in-situ…
As circuitry approaches single nanometer length scales, it is important to predict the stability of metals at these scales. The behavior of metals at larger scales can be predicted based on the behavior of dislocations, but it is unclear if…
Extreme pressures and high magnetic fields can affect materials in profound and fascinating ways. However, large pressures and fields are often mutually incompatible; the rapidly changing fields provided by pulsed magnets induce eddy…
We report on a novel approach to dynamic compression of materials that bridges the gap between previous static- and dynamic- compression techniques, allowing to explore a wide range of pathways in the pressure-temperature space. By…
We have measured the reflectance of rhenium in the visible region to pressures up to 100 GPa in a diamond anvil cell (DAC). By photographing the reflecting surface, we visually show that there are challenges to obtaining accurate values in…
Diamond quantum sensors offer high precision and spatial resolution as magnetic probes, making them promising for a wide range of applications. While diamond anvil cells (DACs) can generate extremely high pressures, techniques for…